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Hi all. A little while back my timing chain tensioner failed while I had the car on blocks for a few weeks while I worked on a clutch replacement. This allowed my motor to lose its timing and it would no longer run, but it took me another week of troubleshooting to figure out what was going on. In that time I probably turned the motor over about 100 times using the starter motor while I was trying to troubleshoot, but at no point when the motor was out of time did it run on its own power. At this point I decided to tow the car off to a shop to get a professional opinion (the first and last time I'll ever send this car to a shop). After a week and $300 in flat towing costs they told me they scoped the motor, found evidence of valve/piston damage, and that the car wasn't worth working on due to its mileage. Ok, fair enough, I got the car back in the garage and figured I had nothing to lose so I ordered myself an engine hoist. Today I finally got the head off of the block to take a look inside to see the damage and now I'm confused. See the pictures below. Either I don't know what I'm looking for here, or the shop I went to did less than nothing and took my money when they decided my car wasn't worth working on. At this point I'm about to put the motor back together, get the timing sorted out, and check compression but I wanted to get some feedback from folks here first.
Long story short, do the pictures below show any indication of piston or valve damage? Is there anything else I should be looking out for?
Long story short, do the pictures below show any indication of piston or valve damage? Is there anything else I should be looking out for?
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